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Leadership Development: Using Your EQ to Avoid Unnecessary Conflict

Carolann Jacobs — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:10:28 +0000

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My leadership development clients hear me say this so often, they say it for me before I can get the words out of my mouth, “I hear that you feel very strongly about that… what value did that person step on?”

Getting Unstuck: Leadership Development Tools For Better Results

Carolann Jacobs — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:20:12 +0000

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Who wants to know how to get yourself and your teams unstuck? Wouldn’t that be a valuable skill to have in your leadership development toolkit?

Leadership Development Happens Daily

Carolann Jacobs — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:47:05 +0000

This article came to me via my friend Sharon Armstrong from Stampin’ Up. It’s a good reminder that by taking intentional steps daily, we grow over time. So many people sleepwalk through their day. The reason vary. Some are too busy with lives that are unsustainably full of stuff to do. Others are in jobs that are boring. Others are in so much pain they shut down. I argue that’s no way to live , let alone work. And, increasingly, it may mean the difference between being in demand and being irrelevant. Which is why I leave you with “Be Your Best You Today”.

Escape the Drama Triangle

Carolann Jacobs — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:09:24 +0000

Have you guys ever noticed how a lot of what I yap about here on the blog about business really translates back to life? If you haven’t noticed, then I want to highlight the point today.

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Man (or Woman) Up! Curing the Epidemic of Weak Leadership

Carolann Jacobs — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:15:47 +0000

This morning I was attending the Young Women Executives Forum at the Tower Club, and today’s topic was Conflict Management. This is a topic that I hit with my coaching clients 100% of the time.

Managewhich as Leader in Trying Times

Carolann Jacobs — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:05:07 +0000

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Team,

Here’s an excerpt from “Breakthrough Leadership” by Wayne Baker at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business. As you read it, I encourage you to think about how you can create this for the people who work with and for you.

When Honesty = Lack of Maturity

Carolann Jacobs — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:05:06 +0000

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A long time ago, far, far away, I was sitting in my SVP’s office having a one on one. I suppose his leadership coach told him that’s what he needed to do to connect with the up-and-coming leaders, or whatever they wanted to call those of us who were on the fast track.

How to Keep the Feedback Conversation Out of the Ditch (Part 4 of The Fact & the Fundamental Lie)

Carolann Jacobs — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:00:05 +0000

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Recapping parts 1-3…

Janice* runs the governance group for her company, and Rhonda* works for Janice in that group. Over the course of time, Janice has developed a healthty distrust of Rhonda, although she’s never addressed it directly with Rhonda. Anyone with two eyes and half an ear can observe that something isn’t right in that relationship. Rhonda doesn’t really understand why Janice doesn’t like her, but she’s never engaged in that conversation, either. Rhonda thinks she’s done her job well and doesn’t understand why she can “do no right” by Janice. The last conversation started with Janice saying to Rhonda, “You always try to sabotage me” and ended with two angry people who both think they are right.

The Best Leadership Book

Carolann Jacobs — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:00:22 +0000

Randy Pausch wrote his book The Last Lecture partly as a way to leave a legacy to his children when he knew that he would not live to see them grow up. Ironically, had he not had the pancreatic cancer that took his life, most of us would never have known this computer science engineer and professor whose fame was mostly within the computer science community.

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Creating “Personal Curb Appeal”

Carolann Jacobs — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:00:05 +0000

Creating “Personal Curb Appeal” is the most important lesson that all of us can take from the Sales body of knowledge. Whether we are job seekers, entrepreneurs, leaders, or employees, we all perform sales, every day. One of the keys to our success, whether it is landing that job, winning that sale or getting buy-in for our ideas, the people we need on board have to respect us and trust us. That starts with curb appeal.